The Door Szabo MagdaPaperback
The Door Szabo MagdaPaperback One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very…
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The Door Szabo MagdaPaperback
One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary's Communist authorities.
She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda's household, becoming indispensable to her. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda.
They share a kind of love--at least until Magda's long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation.Len Rix's prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American